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J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series has been acknowledged for its cultural impact with a new definition in the online Oxford English Dictionary, along with over 2000 other changes and additions. Muggle, n. In the fiction of J. K. Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and …
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Of Blondes and Hotness
Blondes – it’s always the blondes, but what is it about them? Chris Cotner just put up a post about smoking hot BLONDE softballer Jennie Finch replacing super hot BLONDE Anna Kournikova as the Hottest Female Athlete. Coincidentally, the NY Times ran a story about blonde power over the weekend: …
Read More »“You’re Reading the Wrong Way!”
Dipping into Japanese manga with Shonen Jump.
Read More »Top 50 Sci-Fi of the Last 50 Years
The Science Fiction Book Club celebrate their 50th anniversary by selecting “The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002” 1 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien 2 The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov 3 Dune, Frank Herbert 4 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. …
Read More »Madonna Now Kiddie Scribe
Singer, songwriter, producer, actress, model, label owner, now children’s book writer: Madonna and Callaway Editions are creating an original series of five illustrated storybooks for young readers in association with Penguin Group. The English language rights to the five books, each of which will feature a different celebrated illustrator, have …
Read More »New Book on Digital Music, and Review of AOL’s MusicNet
Both from the indispensable Brad Hill.
Read More »Vote for Book/Film/TV Critiquees
The Music Crititquees have been announced (see our sidebar) – now it’s time to join Blogcritics in voting for your favorite books, films, TV shows and DVD’s of 2002. The categories are below – you can vote in the comments section or send me an email at [email protected] Have fun! …
Read More »Oprah Bringing Back the Book Club
The specifics of which depends upon the meaning of the word "classic."
Read More »Simpsons Cross Pond Next Season
J.K. Rowling and Ian McKellen both appear in a Simpsons episode next season when the family travels to London: Rowling fumes sarcastically when young Lisa Simpson pesters her for details about how the “Harry Potter” series will end. McKellen is besieged by falling anvils and other disasters when Homer Simpson …
Read More »Epileptic 1
The plain yellow cover to David B.’s Epileptic 1 (L’Association) only hints at the visual inventiveness found in this remarkable autobiographical graphic work: two boys, one half a head taller than his brother, look out at the reader. To the side of this duo lurks a large lizard head – …
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